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Rectangular wooden inner coffin of Sen, dating to c. 1850 BCE. The coffin sides are inscribed in ink with religious writings now known as the Coffin Texts. On the floor of the coffin is a composition called the 'Book of Two Ways,' a guide...

A book containing the Nuremberg Laws, a set of race and citizenship laws for Jewish people and German citizens which were created in Nazi Germany in September 1935. Part of an exhibition at the Oslo Center for Studies of the Holocaust and...

A clothing ration book used during rationing in wartime Britain. (Imperial War Museums)

A 1428 manuscript illustration showing Durand of Champagne presenting a book to Joan I of Navarre (1273-1305). Joan was a noted patron of literature and education. (British Library)

Book Cover of the novel The Jericho River.

Jean Pucelle: Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux. 1325-28 CE, Metropolitan Museum, New York.

This 14th century CE medical text is written in Armenian and is entitled "Passages of Works by Asclepiades, Democrates and Oribasius." This work is usually attributed to scribe Martiros who translated documents from ancient Greek into Armenian...

The Popol Vuh is the story of creation according to the Quiche Maya of the region known today as Guatemala. Translated as `The Council Book', The Book of the People' or, literally, `The Book of the Mat', the work has been referred to as "The...

The Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) are a collection of scrolls found in the desert east of Jerusalem on the shore of the Dead Sea. They represent the largest manuscript collections of texts from the Second Temple Period found in the area of Judah...

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-egyptian-book-of-the-dead-tejal-gala Ancient Egyptians believed that in order to become immortal after death, a spirit must first pass through the underworld — a realm of vast caverns, lakes...